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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cnhsqldb.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphEsgyncurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20062015200120112019
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.7.2, June 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored ProceduresJava, SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BlazegraphEsgynDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBOpenTSDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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